Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-26 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:55:26PM +1100, Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: > echo "libfreetype6 hold" | dpkg --set-selections > > When you want to remove the hold, later on, do: > > echo "libfreetype6 install" | dpkg --set-selections Which will not work as aptitude quite happily ignores holds set by stan

Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 25 February 2006 04:32, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > Hold the package instead of forbidding it. > > Thanks. I'm familiar with how to hold packages. But I was hoping > that this forbid-version option in aptitude would be an improvement > since I could block a single version rather than h

Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-25 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 08:03:42PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 18:48, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday > > and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried > > will break my window manager (W

Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 24 February 2006 18:48, Walt Mankowski wrote: > I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday > and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried > will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that > version of libfreetype6 on hold

Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-24 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 09:48:35PM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote: > I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday > and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried > will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that > version of libfreetype6

Re: Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-24 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 2/24/06, Walt Mankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm running debian testing.  I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterdayand it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worriedwill break my window manager (Window Maker).  I'd like to put that version of libfreetype6 on hold until things

Forbidding a version of a package in debian

2006-02-24 Thread Walt Mankowski
I'm running debian testing. I ran "aptitude dist-upgrade" yesterday and it wants to install a version of libfreetype6 that I'm worried will break my window manager (Window Maker). I'd like to put that version of libfreetype6 on hold until things get sorted out. I read through the aptitude man pa